Wednesday, November 4, 2009

1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett2. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel4. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls5. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner2. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell3. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell4. The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President by Taylor Branch5. Drinking With George: A Barstool Professional's Guide to Beer by George Wendt

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows5. Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Chicago Haunts 3 by Ursula Bielski2. The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell3. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou4. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubne

List courtesy of Carl Lennertz at HarperCollins, as gathered from Anderson's Bookshop, the Book Cellar, the Book Stall at Chestnut Court, the Book Table, 57th Street Books, Lake Forest Books, Read Between the Lynes, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and Women & Children First.